Jesse Bernard: Escaping Babylon - An Intimate History of Black British Music Joy Gregory With over a quarter of

With over a quarter of a million copies sold in its various editions since 1963

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Jesse Bernard: Escaping Babylon - An Intimate History of Black British Music Joy Gregory With over a quarter ofProfile Books, 2026, Hardback, 336 pages, 15. 8 x 23. 8 cm Shapeshifting, collaborative, endlessly inventive and robustly empowering: Black music has transformed British culture and society, and gifted generations of Black Britons a powerful means to reject misrepresentation and find freedom and joy in sound. From the height of jungle and hip hop in the 90s to the London uprisings in 2011, the birth of UK trap and the rise of grime superstars like